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- Peace Corps Presentation of FY 1963 Program to United States Congress, June 1962
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1963.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Primary School Students
- Women in Peace Corps; Children; Education; Schools
- This is a farewell photo presented at the end of myservice (September,1975) and signed by the director of the school expressing appreciation for contributions to the students and community. The school was organized by a local association to provide...
- Volunteer Photos
- Health professions in the Peace Corps
- Doctors; Nurses; Medicine; Health
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Khotyn Fortress
- Architecture
- The town I lived in, Khotyn, is home to a 1,000 year old fortress, which is a great source of pride for the residents and one of the things I loved most about living there. I took this very snowy picture of the fortress, with the Dnister River in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Last Bell
- Celebrations; Schools
- The Last Bell ceremony in Ukrainian schools marks the last day of school, or the last bell of the school year. One of the youngest first formers and the oldest eleventh formers get the honor of ringing the actual last bell. This picture was taken...
- Volunteer Photos
- Forty-five years later
- Host community friends; Children
- When my husband and I visited Turkey 45 years after I had been a Peace Corps Volunteer, we were invited to stay with one of my former students, Huseyin. He, his wife Hafize and daughter were living in Istanbul, far from Kirikhan in southeastern...
- Volunteer Photos
- Market Day
- Markets
- On market day in my town, Kirikhan, in southeastern Turkey, villagers sold produce like dried beans or eggplant, fresh tomatoes, onions, and green beans. I had never seen an open market like this with women wearing colorful shalvars, baggy pants...
- Volunteer Photos
- Technology in Turkey
- Schools; Host community; Technology
- In 2001 my husband, who was not in the Peace Corps, and I visited Turkey. Huseyin, a former student from 45 years ago, invited us to stay with him and his family in Istanbul. On our own, we visited Kirikhan, my site which is in southeastern Turkey....
- Volunteer Photos
- Students with Projects
- Teachers and students; Schools; Education
- My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from villages...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Run Down Memory Lane
- Teachers and students; Sports; Host community; Water and sanitation
- Volunteer Stories
- The Tea Seller
- Traditional dress; Food and meals; children
- Tea is as important a drink in Turkey as is coffee. When visiting with Turkish friends, they always offered tea first. Later coffee, more expensive and more time consuming to make, would be offered. I was always amazed at how this young boy could...
- Volunteer Photos
- School of Journalism Instructors
- Host community friends; Women in Peace Corps
- Local newspaper offered a journalism course during the evening that I attended as a student. I received a certificate of completion at a graduation ceremony in 1974. This program provided me an opportunity to improve my Portuguese language skills...
- Volunteer Photos
- Babushkas
- Host community friends
- On a cool summer evening in July 2003, a group of local babushkas gossip and catch up on a bench in Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine.
- Volunteer Photos
- Return Visit Seventeen Years Later
- Host families; Women in Peace Corps;
- After 17 years I returned to visit my host family in Jequie. My host father Esmeraldo dos Santos loved to hunt and we visited many rural farms together. My host mother Maria had 13 children and invited me for Sunday dinner every week. My big...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1962) of the Peace Corps Volunteer
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 1962) of the Peace Corps Volunteer
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps News (June 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 2, No. 5 (June 1962) of the Peace Corps News
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1963)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol.1, No.6 of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1963)
- Newsletters